Articles related to "Virginia Colony"

George Calvert becomes associated with the Virginia Company, the provisional council for the Virginia colony, the New England Company, and a plantation in Newfoundland.

Less than half of the Mayflower's 1620 passengers were still alive when the first harvest was brought in, but there was much to give thanks for.

Four hundred years ago this year, Jamestown was established as the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Eugenics and selective breeding did not begin in Nazi Germany, but had roots in the United States, where several states had adopted compulsory sterilization laws.

Bacon's Rebellion came in response to conflicts over frontier Indian policies between settlers and the colonial government as well as unjust taxes and favoritism.

Two passenger lists from 1635 disclose widely different emigrants, enabling historians to draw conclusions about family and community building in colonial America.

In the 18th century Ohio frontier Ludwig "Lewis" Wetzel served as the boogeyman of the forests on his one-man revenge-fueled warpath

These 42 passengers bound for Virginia were primarily men between ages 16 and 36. There were only eight women aboard.

Although colonial America exhibited a diversity of religious beliefs, Sabbath day expectations were universal and formed traditional practices still evident today.

Lord Baltimore receives a land patent in America called Maryland, encompassing present-day Maryland, Delaware, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Reflection on Thanksgiving beginnings while Americans look forward to get together and traditional meal.

Pocahontas, in England, is presented to King James I, sees a Shakespeare play, is visited by John Smith, becomes ill and dies in London.

In 1625, George Calvert owned a 2,300-acre estate in County Longford in Northern Ireland. He would soon be made the first Lord Baltimore.

Randall Holt probably came to the Jamestown Colony in 1621 onboard the ship George as a young teen and indentured servant to Dr. John Potts.

Of all the personalities of the Golden Age of Piracy, none has had the same impact in popular memory as the notorious Blackbeard.

Choosing Liberty or Death, Virginia mobilized the militia. On April 21, Lord Dunmore raided the Williamsburg Magazine. Colonel Patrick Henry leads Hanover Militia.

The Mayflower Compact, signed in 1620 by the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, has been cited as a model of self-government.

One of Sarah Palin's more controversial ancestors is Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins. Four centuries have not separated the fact and fiction of his past.

By 1614, the Indians, having had enough of land-grabbing whites, start a war. Pocahontas marries Kocoum, is kidnapped, marries Rolfe and sails for England.

While Spanish motivations at New World colonization have often been described as "God, Gold, and Glory," English goals centered on profitable enterprises such as tobacco.

The settlement and heritage of the county has been largely overshadowed by museum restorations at Jamestown and Williamsburg, Virginia's first and second capital cities.

Genealogists can enjoy a trip to St. Mary's City or Colonial Williamsburg as a reward for finding Chesapeake ancestors and get to know their world if not their names.

Before the ship left the English port of Gravesend, a minister certified that Virginia bound passengers conformed to doctrine and practices of The Church of England.

Add pirates to the list of trials and tribulations faced by early settlers around the Virginia Colony's Chesapeake Bay. But pirates were simply independent entrepreneurs.

John Fisher, the immigrant ancestor, reportedly had both illegitimate and legitimate descent from English Royalty. Yet, he left scant evidence of his years in Virginia.